In my recent blog: “Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common?“, I mentioned that the storytelling should be attached to your online ancestry tree as either a document or a photo. In this “How to” tutorial, I will walk you through the process of how to add photo media to your tree in […]
In a previous blog post I mentioned cherry pie and thought I would follow it up with another interest of mine, which is cooking. I am sure most people keep their own personal cookbook with all the alterations they’ve made to their recipes. I started entering my recipes in 1991 and now my book is
Let me tell you how special holidays/celebrations and ancestry have something in common with a few family stories. A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated my husband’s birthday. Every year we have his favorite celebration pie. Most people have a special cake, but not my husband. Every year since we have been married, almost 36
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When working on your tree you will inevitably run into a dilemma on how to document a relative’s relationship with someone. The relationship scenarios I have encountered most often in my tree are adoption, same sex marriage, and with modern DNA technology, findings like who you thought was your biological parent was not. Some family
This true little story happened over five years ago. At the time I was working on my husband’s ancestry lines. I noticed a genealogy tree on Ancestry® that had the wrong information, so I contacted the person who created it through the Ancestry message system, and I gave them all the information so they could locate
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The other day, my cousin, “James”, messaged me that Ancestry canceled his order for the birth record he ordered about 6 weeks ago. The reason “No record found”. I thought this was odd as he was using the information from the indexed record. I got on the case immediately. Just like James, at some
It took me a few years to discover Family Tree Maker software that makes genealogy so much easier to keep a hardcopy of your entire work. Family Tree Maker is a genealogical software made by The Software MacKiev Company. The program is designed to specifically sync to Ancestry® . Even though my tree is always on
Most people have their DNA done to see what they are “made of”, which is fun to do, and it can end there, but for me I wanted not to just know where I came from, but I wanted to know my ancestors. I didn’t know this is what I wanted when I first did
